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The 15 departments of the US executive branch (the cabinet) are :
Department of Agriculture
Department of Commerce
Department of Defense
Department of Education
Department of Energy
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Homeland Security
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Department of the Interior
Department of Justice
Department of Labor
Department of State
Department of Transportation
Department of the Treasury
Department of Veterans Affairs
The executive who runs a department is called a Secretary (e.g. Hillary Clinton is the Secretary of State). The exception is the Department of Justice, which is headed by the Attorney General.
They run the 14 Executive Departments (departments of State, Defense, Treasury, etc.) and provide advice to the president.
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The 15 cabinet-level deparments of the US executive branch are :
- Department of State (created 1789 as "Department of Foreign Affairs")
- Department of the Treasury (created 1789)
- Department of Defense (created 1947 from the Departments of War and Navy, 1789 and 1798)
- Department of Justice (created 1870 for office of Attorney General, 1789)
- Department of the Interior (created 1849)
- Department of Agriculture (created 1889)
- Department of Commerce (created 1903 as Labor and Commerce)
- Department of Labor (created 1913 from Labor and Commerce)
- Department of Health and Human Services (created 1953 as Health, Education, and Welfare)
- Department of Housing and Urban Development (created 1965)
- Department of Transportation (created 1966)
- Department of Energy (created 1977)
- Department of Education (created 1979 from Health, Education, and Welfare)
- Department of Veterans Affairs (created 1989 from Veterans Administration, 1930)
- Department of Homeland Security (created 2002)
State (deals with foreign relations)
Treasury
Defence
Justice (led by the Attorney General)
Interior (deals with Federal Land, Natural Resources and miscellaneous issues)
Agriculture
Commerce
Labor
Education
Transportation
Energy
Housing & Urban Development
Health & Human Services
Veteran Affairs (deals with ex-soldier's health care and pensions)
Homeland Security (deals with security threats and natural disasters)
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The power to create Cabinet level departments is?
The power to create a cabinet level post belongs to the president. However, the Congress much appropriate the funds to operate it. The most recent cabinet department is the Department of Homeland Security.
What has been a Cabinet dept since 1947?
war and navy departments were combined in 1947 to form commerce department war and navy departments were combined in 1947 to form defense department war and navy departments were combined in 1947 to form defense department
Why was the Vietnam Veterans Memorial built underground?
It's not underground, it's at ground level so people can walk up to it and read the names.
Subdivisions within cabinet departments are known as?
bureaus and agencies.
People chosen by the resident to run government departments are know as the?
They are the "Cabinet." In the US, the Cabinet consists of the Secretaries in charge of the executive departments, along with the Attorney General for the Department of Justice.
